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CareercowJack Russell Scalfani / Cooking With Jack / Jack on the Go Show / jakatak - YouTube "Celebrity" "Chef", Living Encyclopedia of Gluttony-Induced Maladies, Salmonella Elemental
"Cake is way thin"
They're starving him before our very eyes. How can they do this to a good, Christian celebrity? Don't they know who he is? F- [OBJ][OBJ]
Benefit of the doubt, maybe he's just saying he doesn't know where Jack is as a form of plausible deniability. Acknowledging Jack was recovering from a stroke might be a big no no on youtube.
Although August is kind of dumb so it could go either way.
We all know a boomer hour is five minutes in a restaurant. And Jack appears to be basking in the illusion that he is on a cruise, TOOT TOOT!
As to people advocating for "kill the fatty", I hope you never get the side-eye from a medical professional when you are in serious distress. It's terrifying.
I honestly do worry about burnout nurses and "slow codes". One time I was having an asthma attack and was being treated like a pill seeker.
All I needed was three fucking minutes on an albuterol machine, but at that time my insurance wouldn't give me one.
Eventually my grandpa got one, and I stopped having to go to the ER for that shit.
It's literally a salt pellet in a machine tube. But it kept me from flopping around like a fucking fish. But Nurse Ratched thought I was malingering.
I wish back then you could buy them online. You can now. They even make ones for kids, which would please Jack. "I want the elepant nebulizer, tammy mom!"
I feel bad for the cafeteria workers. They are generally thought to cook the meat before serving it to the patients. They are ill prepared to deal with a resident who looks down on the concept of doneness .
As to people advocating for "kill the fatty", I hope you never get the side-eye from a medical professional when you are in serious distress. It's terrifying.
I can't speak for others, but I am acutely aware that many primary care givers something less than compassionate human beings, or become such after sufficient amounts of time. This is precisely what Jack deserves though.
I have a hard time believing that honestly, for someone who has made a career of riffing on Jack there’s no way he doesn’t keep tabs on him even a little. He might even follow this thread.
It might be a smoothbrained tactic to make taking the piss out of a stroke victim look less like punching down by feigning ignorance, but it’s not working. Many in the comments are posting about the stroke.
The mustard thing pisses me off to an unusual degree. I can't speak for this specific facility but it's common knowledge that nursing homes across the country are dealing with critical staffing shortages that aren't expected to rebound for years now.
Jack, what little staff they have probably have better things to worry about than getting you mustard. Fucking fatass
Two caveats: still in the industry but my SNF experience is pre-COVID; the US response was 50 slightly different responses and each of those changing frequently.
At the most strict, it was mainly keeping SNF residents separate in their rooms (or shared rooms). No bingo, meals in the rooms, visits outside or through windows. When this was relaxed there were still modified quarantines for the residents who had been out of the facility for over 24 hours (usually at a hospital). No bingo for Agnes specifically until we're sure she didn't bring back the 'VID when she got her hip pinned.
Nursing facilities are like cruise ships: geographically small areas packed with the frail elderly. You ever read about one of those "diarrhea cruises," it's almost exactly the same when norovirus tears through a nursing home. Cruise ship's the same close quarters, just slightly more healthy occupants, slightly more continent, and the staff aren't coming and going. SNFs also have terrible staffing ratios and corners are likely to be cut going resident-to-resident, leading to more disease transmission.
Also how should the facility be dealing with Jack? Not talking about what they should really be able to do to his fat ass... but within the restraints they have to operate, how should they handle him?
Right now, Jack is on the Skilled side. They're tasked with rehabbing him enough so that he can return to his home. Jack might think this means walking again, but a reasonable goal would be that Jack goes home and is able to self-transfer on the same level (bed to chair, chair to toilet), able to do most of his dressing and hygiene. Family should be communicating with the SNF and making the appropriate home adaptations for this.
Ideally, while the resident is learning how to safely move with the abilities they have, the family is at home installing grab bars and poles, buying a commode and a shower chair, maybe getting a roll-in shower retrofit.
After a catastrophic CVA, everything in the patient's life has changed (and the CVA may also have left them emotionally labile). A period of mourning lost independence, bargaining, anger--completely reasonable! Jack is not the only unpleasant resident they've ever had at the rehab. Some people start out unwilling to work after they arrive, and some people have very bad days.
In order for insurance to bankroll Jack's stay at the SNF, the inpatient PT at the hospital had to document that Jack was able to work with them on his goals. (Reject inpatient PT too often and this opportunity goes away.) Now that he's there, he is still free to refuse, but he won't get any extensions to his time there.
PT and the case manager need to sit down with Jack, possibly with Tammy, and discuss goals. What does getting home look like for him, how much assistance can Tammy provide. (If Jack says Tammy is going to do everything, be the one to bodily transfer him and to wipe him every time he poops, they might talk to Tammy alone to determine if this is reasonable.) They make a care plan together and discuss how Jack is doing, working toward that. Ideally get him to verbalize goals himself. Something as simple as "Jack will use the slide-board to transfer himself with assist, working up to slide-board independently with standby."
The care plan gets written down and relayed to the aides who are there 24/7; there might even be a sign in the room to help keep Jack honest. ""No 2-person stand-pivot transfers; Jack needs to use the slider-board." Because at midnight, staff wants to do it the most efficient way, and Jack wants it to be done for him. But that won't get him home.
There isn't any threatening you can do to Jack; you can't make him work to get stronger. He's even his own medical decision-maker. The facility needs to clearly explain goals and the likely consequences if these aren't met, and document that. The time will come soon enough to decide where Jack will go next.
I'm not a PT and Jack has been pretty cagey about his mobility. It looks like his left arm is completely intact and he may have some gross movement in his right. "Can't stand" might mean he can't balance, or it might mean he can bear weight but can't lift his feet once he's up. It could mean a whole lot of things.
A transfer pole by Jack's bed and in his bathroom (which is large enough for his wheelchair) might be enough for independent home transfers.
If Jack were more independent-minded (and a little lighter), a slide board might be good for him, with a little help from Tammy when they're out on the town. I feel like Jack's going to be all-or-nothing in his mindset, though. If he can't be 100%, he's going to want everyone else to adapt for him.
The profile pictures make it look like Jack's commenters are slightly older than him. It's a shame nobody's asking him for specifics about his actual rehab, or offering him their late grandpa's bedside commode that they have in the garage.
I really, really hope one day we’ll see posts about how Tammy hasn’t visited him for a week and the only family member that’s picking up the phone is Junior. The groveling and whining over food is hilarious to me. Despite everything that’s happened, he still has no real understanding of everything that he’s lost and what he could still lose.
